Save Gender Masculine Usage Russian (Rare) Scripts Фарлаф(Russian) Pronounced Pron. Far-laf, F-ar-la-f [key] Meaning & History name used by a Varangian knight from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1820 poem "Ruslan and Ludmila". the character would be played by Fyodor Shalyapin in an opera by the same name in 1901.